Cambodia’s diplomacy will be tested by the bloc’s difficult challenges, while the U.S. seeks to limit China’s influence on Cambodia’s turn at ASEAN’s helm.
The Justice Department on Monday accused three Chinese state security officials of coordinating an expansive hacking campaign targeting government entities, universities and corporations around the world.
Cambodia will fund the tuition for six cadets at American military universities, after the U.S. announced that Cambodian soldiers were no longer eligible for scholarships.
In letters sent to U.S. Ambassador W. Patrick Murphy, copies of which were received by VOA’s Khmer Service, the students said they considered the decision to be "shockingly bad news" and that they were “heartbroken.”
News of the development area has raised concerns among a fishing community that lives in Chroy Pros commune.
The decision to end the program had been made after Cambodia had ended some areas of military cooperation, U.S. Embassy spokesman Arend Zwartjes said.
A growing network of crisis-defusing telephone hotlines between China and other Asian countries shows Beijing’s intent to strengthen those relations but does not resolve the wider disputes that could spark conflict, analysts believe.
Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, and Myanmar's junta leader committed to further strengthening security and other ties between the two countries at a Moscow meeting on Monday.
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Tuesday said parliament could reconvene by September at the earliest, providing the average number of new daily coronavirus infections falls to under 2,000.
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